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Roanoke and Botetourt Counties along with the Town of Vinton have partnered together for the Safe Streets and Roads for All program

Why are these artists continually drawn towards space? We explore how space has inspired their artworks in distinct ways.

Seasoned art collectors who capitalize on the globetrotting nature of their work, they visit galleries and studios wherever they go.

Should there ever be the need for an artist who can envision the apocalypse, Mat Collishaw would probably be the right man to call. This thought came up after I saw some of his work in Valencia, in the newly opened Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero (CAHH), a private collection gone public, with an impressive list of artists, both Spanish and international.

Akris exhibition

When James Welling gets deeply involved in a project, he sees the subjects he’s interested in everywhere. His current body of work, Thought Objects, emphasizes textured surfaces. Some of his subjects include flowers, Brutalist architecture, a blue door in Paris, a sculpture table in Guilford, but his photographs do much more than convey subject matter, they open out into fields of metaphor and analogy.

The ambitions of the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron are sky-high and worldwide.

After a seven-year $42-million revamp, Palacio Valeriola reopened its doors in Valencia, Spain, as the newly named Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero.

Featuring works drawn from the collection, the inaugural exhibition, A Theatre of Waiting, adopts the title of the triptych created by artist Xie Nanxing in 2019, as a metaphor to illustrate that The Cloud Collection, as a theatre-like space for art collections, will always be waiting for the arrival of outstanding artworks.

We I.D. the major consignors, and some of the fascinating back stories to this week's London sales.